Technical Lead Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Navigation Experience

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  
• 8 years of experience with Application programming interface (API), system design, and C++.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
  
• 5 years of experience in client side mobile development (Android or iOS).
  
• Experience working with navigation systems.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction., and mentoring and coaching team members.
  
• Understanding of geo-related technology, including Google Earth and Google Maps.
  
• Knowledge of mobile app development on Android or iOS.
  
• Excellent people management skills.
  

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In this role, you will build the Navigation experience for Google Maps mobile products (e.g., CarPlay, Android Auto), their counterparts, in Auto-embedded Google Maps, and in our Navigation Software Development Kits (SDK). Geo’s Navigation Experience team translates our routing and geolocation into a visualized user product that showcases information about the user’s route. This spans the entire visualized experience rendering of the route on the map, highlighting useful on-map annotations, rendering turn cards with detailed lane guidance, framing the user’s view of the map in a context-relevant manner and speaking voice guidance.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

Responsibilities

• Develop and leverag expertise with the cross-platform Navigation Client Experience stack, and the Android and iOS Google Maps Mobile development environments in which it exists, to make direct technical contributions to the codebase.
  
• Lead technical collaboration with cross-functional partners and cross-organization teams, to negotiate the right technical projects to pursue, and report on their milestones and timelines, as well as, working with various team leads to plan and track programs of work, building and leveraging a knowledge of the group’s goals and skillsets.
  
• Design and guide solutions to navigation problems that balance product trajectory, system performance, and codebase health.
  
• Manage and train team members on design techniques, coding standards, etc.
• Write, review and provide feedback on code and guide best practices (e.g. style guidelines, accuracy, testability, maintainability and efficiency).